also sprach Andrei D. Caraman <adc@floater.org> [2002.10.09.1629 +0200]:
> Urs has a 2.2kernel/ipchains masquerading firewall connecting
> his home LAN to the world over a DSL line (with pppoe). Now his
> provider disconnects every pppoe session that's longer than 24
> hours, most likely to discourage people from running their own
> (web) servers and such. Of course, upon reestablishing the
> link, the box gets a different IP address (that was the whole
> point of disc'ing the line). The script Urs had did not take
> into account a change of the local IP address.
I was thinking something like that. Tell me, though, why do you need
the local IP in a firewall script? All my firewall scripts are
independent of the local IP...
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